Edgar Allan Poe Quote

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Happiness
• Beginning

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Aeschylus

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Oscar Wilde

• Woman

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Bertolt Brecht

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

Oliver Stone

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Jean Arp

• Meditation
• Silence

The will of man is his happiness.

Friedrich Schiller

• Man
• Happiness

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Napoleon Hill

No one is happy all his life long.

Euripides

• Happiness

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Life

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

• Love
• Happiness

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Jules Verne

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Rudolph Valentino

• Man

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

Claire Danes